MORE than 2,000 educators, educational administrators, researchers, and other stakeholders in education converge today in Davao City for the three-day National Educators’ Congress sponsored by the Department of Education (DepEd).

BELATED greetings to our brother and sister Muslims who recently celebrated Eid’l Fitr, which marked the end of the month-long Ramadhan.

BELATED greetings to our brother and sister Muslims who recently celebrated Eid’l Fitr, which marked the end of the month-long Ramadhan.

THERE must be some deep reason and complicated economic logic for Executive Order 285 "directing the rationalization of the operations of the Garment and Textile Export Board (GTEB"). That’s doublespeak for abolishing the agency tasked under EOs 537, 823, and 952 "to negotiate, conclude, and implement garments and textile agreements, bilateral or multilateral, between the Philippines and other countries."

THE good book has promised that the truth shall make us free. The truth brings us into the light. The opposite must be true: The lack of truth condemns us to remain in the dark, always in the shadows.

IN the mid-1990s, the US Congress increased the minimum wage and researchers found that this did not affect business at all.

(Statement on the completion of the secretary’s trip to Washington, DC, and the United Nations, New York, and on his departure for his official visit to Vietnam, November 3, 2005.)

THERE was unmistakable mild panic in many gasoline stations in Metro Manila on the night of October 31. The provocateurs – motorists trying to fill up their gas tanks hours before the effectivity of the feared EVAT.

US President George Bush has named a new US envoy to the Philippines in the person of career diplomat Kristie Anne Kenney.

SEN. Joker Arroyo described the recent rape case — in which five US soldiers have been accused of raping a Filipino woman in a van as "US Sexual Terrorism." If that criminal act is within the concept of terrorism, the US should be the first country, among those which have committed to fight against world terrorism, to take the initiative of imposing the appropriate punishment on those soldiers if they are found guilty as accused. Without any punishment for that incident, it would give a wrong impression to terrorists that they could commit a terrorist act, not by bombing and shooting, but also raping people to be terrorized to pursuit their objectives. Including rape as sexual terrorism is a worse precedent.

PHILIPPINES has no planes to patrol its skies. And no vaccine to fight the bird flu, God help us.

JESUS said to His disciples, "Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the person through whom they occur. It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he wrongs you seven times in one day and returns to you seven times saying, ‘I am sorry,’ you should forgive him." And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith." The Lord replied, "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to [this] mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you."